The Works ─ Every Kind of Poem You Will Ever Need at School

Every kind of poem a teacher could wish for, all in one bumper book

This book contains every kind of poem you will ever need for a classroom—but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader. It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, kennings, couplets, thin poems, lists, conversations, monologues, epitaphs, songs, limericks, tankas, nonsense poems, raps, narrative verse, and performance poetry, and that's just for starters. It features poems from the very best classic and modern poets, for example: William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W.H. Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot, and William Shakespeare, to name but a few. This is a book packed with gems for dipping in to time and time again.

Paul Cookson spends most of his time visiting schools, performing his poetry, and helping children to write their own poems. Paul has compiled many books for Macmillan, includingHow to Embarrass Teachers and It Came From Outer Space!, and has two collections of his own poetry.